WebAPI/2011-08-30
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Status
- WebSMS
- WebUSB
- WebTelephony
- Security model
- "FileSystem"
- Camera
Notes
- SMS
- Got SMS object, with uuid
- Support for delete
- All works on android
- Missing get, possibly next week
- USB
- Still working on windows impl
- Device identifying API on windows is tricky
- Rough details added to wiki
- Telephony
- Spec in wiki
- DOM stuff mostly ready
- Starting backend this week
- B2G platform
- Anything that works on android works on B2G now
- Java APIs will get removed
- You can give it a HTML page that it'll use as home screen
- Web Vibrator
- There are patches, but they need some work
- If someone wants to take them to the finish line, go ahead
- Camera
- 2 main use cases, 1 other
- most effort, hardest: streaming video
- whole team working on that WebRTC
- connectivity (firewall workarounds), streaming (changing bandwidth conditions)
- no ETA
- still image, upload to web page
- need to find someone to do this
- sicking has API ideas
- need cross platform code to read from cameras (WebRTC has this, need to separate out from 1 above)
- basically <input type="file"> with UI button to take picture
- blizzard working on finding someone to do this
- might be working on fennec already (fabrice working on this?), just need desktop owner
- no effort yet, taking short video clips
- important? need to determine if anyone cares
- which encoding format? flame on!
- most effort, hardest: streaming video
- khuey had some code for this a year ago, not sure if that is what WebRTC is using or not.
- anant is maybe best contact? (related to Labs Rainbow project)
- 2 main use cases, 1 other